Vers 2.9

एवमुक्त्वा हृषीकेशं गुडाकेशः परन्तप ।

न योत्स्य इति गोविन्दमुक्त्वा तूष्णीं बभूव ह ॥

2.9

Transliteratie

evamuktvā hṛṣīkeśaṃ guḍākeśaḥ parantapa |

na yotsya iti govindamuktvā tūṣṇīṃ babhūva ha ||

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Vertaling

Sanjaya said Having spoken thus to Hrishikesha (the Lord of the senses), Arjuna (the coneror of sleep), the destroyer of foes, said to Krishna, "I will not fight" and became silent.

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thus
having spoken
to Hrishikesha
Gudakesha (Arjuna)
O scorcher of foes (Dhritarashtra)

not
I shall fight
thus
to Govinda
saying
silent
became
indeed

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Uitleg

Sanjaya returns to describe the scene. Arjuna, called Gudakesha, one who has mastered sleep, declares to Krishna that he will not fight and falls silent. The epithet is telling: the alert, wakeful warrior has reached a standstill. His silence marks the end of his arguments. Everything he could say has been said, and the dialogue now waits for Krishna. In the frame of the epic, Dhritarashtra hears this and may hope the battle will not happen, which adds tension to what Krishna is about to say.